iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 27/09/2026

finally got around to cleaning my crusty old Canonet QL19. The rangefinder patch is actually visible now

a Canonet QL19 with its top removed alongside several tools on a desk

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 27/09/2026

excuse me Dark Mistress, your Gentoo install media is ready

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 07/09/2026

I’m so fucking lucky I was able to come out at my current job and actually be accepted, but now I’m terrified to leave and hyper paranoid about fucking up in any minor way. Plus, I made the mistake of specializing in a highly technical niche industry dominated almost exclusively by old men.

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 03/09/2026

Does anyone have a cesium standard? I need to use it for a second.

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 28/08/2026

Update: the turtle log is now mostly underwater :’(

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 18/08/2026

if nobody else got me I know the log turtles on my way to work got me

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 16/08/2026

C++, originally for AVR and then STM32 when I gave up and realized I needed more cycles

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 16/08/2026

as someone who has also bit-banged PS/2, I feel your pain

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 29/07/2026

hairbrained idea to make LEGO versions of AT&T long lines microwave towers

a LEGO representation of a concrete Long Lines microwave tower

the original reference image of the concrete tower

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 21/07/2026

my 90’s dispatch console has them! (I think) I love how they look

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 20/07/2026

you are not, in fact, supposed to be able to pull the connector off the end of a run of heliax with a gentle tug. All fixed up and the antenna actually works now!

A close up view of an RF connector separated from a run of coax after being barely held on by tape and luck

A wider view showing the location of the coax atop a 50ft blue wayfinding tower at the Oshkosh Airshow

A new coax run installed and secured, with a sunset and planes in the background

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 16/07/2026

using shopping bags as a weatherproofing material is an innovative new approach to radio I’ve not yet seen

A broken RF connector with a messy, corroded cable and small bits of shopping bags visible under electrical tape

The same cable, now with tape removed revealing more shopping bags

Even more shopping bags under layers of tape

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/07/2026

detailed hand-drawn technical art like this has been a lost art for like 30 years the full article is scanned here: long-lines.net/tech-equip/m...

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/07/2026

peak special interest reading material - trains, radios, and telephones

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/07/2026

this is all amazing history, thank you for scanning them!! I would love to find official drawings for the concrete towers so I can make some prints. I just made my own but they're definitely not as detailed as I'd like, plus I wasn't good enough at art yet to draw the KS-15676s properly ߹𖥦߹

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/07/2026

!!! that's amazing I just got my concrete tower drawings hung back up so I've been on a long lines kick again

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/07/2026

omg where did you get the long lines tower, I need that immediately

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/07/2026

i'm being told it's the cleanest clock signal anyone's ever measured

a cathode-ray oscilloscope showing a square wave with an absolutely insane amount of ringing and overshoot I mean wow that's bad

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 08/07/2026

Doing some (RF) plumbing - added in an LNA/attenuator/filter combo to the receive side so my multicoupler actually works properly now

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 10/06/2026

tag yourself, I'm definitely bottom left

A captioned figure of 16 differently-shaped knobs on sticks reading FIGURE 1: Easily Recognizable Knob Shapes

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Andy @rukira91.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I’m on that shit jehova hasn’t even witnessed

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 26/04/2026

dont tell the FRA but I’m operating a locomotive under the influence of alcohol

a photo of an HO-scale Milwaukee Road Baby Trainmaster locomotive and a remote control shaped like a miniature locomotive control stand

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 26/04/2026

they’re slowly replacing it all with concrete structure and it’s literally the worst thing ever from both a maintenance and aesthetic angle. I bully their civil engineers whenever I run into them (a lot)

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 21/04/2026

oh I still go storm chasing!! I just haven’t found a new group of weather nerds to join me which means no fun action pics yet -.-

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 21/04/2026

god I wish I had post-transition pics of me out chasing. I need to leverage this shit

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 21/04/2026

is this how I discover the nerdy hobby I’ve had since I was 12 is hot actually

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 21/04/2026

brute forcing my way through learning blender, one lowpoly chicagoland transit railcar at a time

a low-poly pixel art 3D model of a NICTD South Shore Line single-level EMU

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 19/04/2026

Working on a little lowpoly CTA trainset and I decided to go the extra mile and give it configurable route signage with matching marker lights

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Bramble 🐏 @brambleramb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Coyotes drinking from the fabric of reality

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 02/04/2026

it def started with trains but yea anymore you can be a foamer for any form of transportation really. Except cars, those are lame

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 02/04/2026

more generally just train autism its fun you should try it

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 31/03/2026

Super stoked to finally share the latest Newgrounds collab I'm a part of! @kotico.bsky.social invited me to compose a JRPG-inspired track for the Spectra Collab - an interactive artists' collaboration to create a library of games for a fake console system. ↓ Link to my song in the replies below ↓

newgrounds.com

Spectra Collab

SPECTRA SYSTEM - 20XX

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 18/03/2026

Welcome back the Valpo Dummy

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The Szym Reaper @ NYCC F21 @adamszym.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Never related to a meme harder than I do with this one right now

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 05/03/2026

one of the perks of volunteering at airshows is being able to take mildly entertaining photos of planes

a photo of an F-35 as seen from the mirror of a pickup truck

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 30/01/2026

you design 2-layer PCBs because you're good at making efficient layouts. I design 2-layer PCBs because I'm a cheapass. We are not the same

a screenshot from a PCB design tool showing a rat's nest of poorly routed traces

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 30/01/2026

I didn't realize that many people had these lmao, my friend designed them and gave one to me in exchange for a box of miscellaneous electronics bits

A gold enamel pin of two flags, the NATO flag and the trans pride flag

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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 25/01/2026

spent two hours with a wrench and a torch to try and figure out why my 6GHz calibration standard was dead. If it wasn't broken before it sure is now. Tiny little ceramic substrate PCB with two carbon traces that combine to make an extremely precise 50Ω load, and now unfortunately in two pieces.

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